Philosopher

Dwight Macdonald

Overview

Dwight Macdonald (March 24, 1906 – December 19, 1982) was an American writer, critic, philosopher, and activist. Macdonald was a member of the New York Intellectuals and editor of their leftist magazine Partisan Review for six years. He also contributed to other New York publications including Time, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Politics, a journal which he founded in 1944.

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Philosophers who discussed Dwight Macdonald

• Simone Weil
• Mortimer J. Adler
• Marshall McLuhan
• Noam Chomsky
• Richard Wollheim
• Heinrich Blücher

Ideas Dwight Macdonald discusses

• Fascism
• Matthew Arnold
• George Orwell
• Anarchism
• High culture
• Public policy
• Joseph Stalin
• Greenwood Publishing Group
• Bolshevism
• Leon Trotsky
• Libertarian socialism
• Great Depression
• Noam Chomsky
• Frankfurt School
• Pacifism
• Protestantism
• Soviet Union
• The New York Review of Books
• Totalitarianism
• The New York Times
• The New Yorker
• Cold War
• Vietnam War
• World War II

Place in the tradition

Part of Dramatism.

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